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January 26, 2004

Monday go-round: Handing you a line

Emilio Cruz, San Francisco’s most devoted son-in-law, won’t be going to the Port Commish as director. Nuthin’ doin’ there. Instead look for him to go to the SFPUC, but not as a member of the Commission. The father-in-law would be happy to see Emilio as Director of the SFPUC. Lots of jobs and contracts coming up there as the SFPUC readies to rebuild Hetch Hetchy … unless Werbach blows the dam up first. …

Well, says the wag, we know one thing about The Gav. He sure likes to appoint girls. … The Gav was with his gal, Kimberly G, this weekend in NYC. Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom had a fine week last week with the premiere of her new daily Court TV show “Both Sides.” And if you miss that, she is also on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” every night. On the rise. … The Gav also garnered good press over the weekend. George Will, in a piece that praised Gav while sneering at SF and at Mrs. Gav, introduced the mayor to the readers of the Washington Post. The Mayor also spent some time in Bal'meer with Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley discussing the ways and means of mayoring a majoring city....

Big City Polit-licks: Look for the vote-for-GN-or-lose- your-SLUG-job scandal to go higher. Some of those voting stubs the workers were required to hand over to superiors were then handed over to even more superior figures. Maybe the high people who ended up with them just like to collect stubs, the way some people collect old Muni transfers. …

Although I managed to collect a passel of Muni transfers Friday in my travels, I didn’t manage to make it out to the Avenues for Malik Looper’s party for his DCCC race. My loss. It was jolly. … As was Rebecca Silverberg’s salon in the Excelsior the same night for her run for the Bd of Supes. Why doesn’t Malik run for the Bd as well? … Best line about the late and much-traveled Jerry Nachman, one-time KCBS news boss, comes from Mickey Kaus, “The Shvitzer: I met Jerry Nachman once, in a hot tub! (Don't ask.) He was a great guy. Everything they say about him rings true. ... I can't believe they're not making them like him any more. But I don't know where they are putting them. ...” Good line from East Coast newspaperman Doug Crichton after perusing the town, “San Francisco isn’t a one-newspaper city. It’s not a two-newspaper city, even though it has two (more-or-less) dailies. When you read the local rags, you realize San Francisco is America’s first no-newspaper city.” Reporting is everything, editors. …

Linda Corso & Warren Hinckle held a caucus the night of the Iowa caucuses. Since the race was over early, the talk turned local. You had Annemarie Conroy … wordsmith F. J. Gallagher … Holli Thier, gathering up signatures for her DCC run, … and a parade of others, including a medical marijuana mogul who showed up with his own uniformed armed guard. It was like the Village People-Goes-Political. Many munchies were consumed. … Hink thinks the Dem Convention will end up as a brokered one. So long as it’s not a broken one. Damn the idiot press corps covering the primaries for missing the big stories while focusing on Dean’s throaty speech. It was fine. … Sussing out Clint Reilly’s next move, now that the Missus wasn’t appointed to the District 2 seat, was the big topic of the evening. Reilly gave The Gav a three-hour talking to when he got the word that Janet wasn’t going to join the Supes. ...

Disney does downtown: The scary condition of Market Street around Eighth is too much for Disney which has plunked its hit “The Lion King” into the Orpheum for a run that they’d like to last two years. So to up the neighborhood, Disney is doing over the corner store-front at the Orpheum into an upscale café. City streets need busy places and open store-fronts. How’d they ever manage to get it done? … And Steve Jobs is constructing an Apple store on Stockton, a few steps up from Market. Doesn’t care if it ever makes a dime. It’s to be a showplace, not a profit center. How’d he ever get it done? …